Piracy : The Nuclear Option
So earlier on the twitters, I said .twitter{background-color:#DDEEF6; border:1px solid #5599BB; padding:10px; margin-bottom:20px;} Yea, whatever. If ACTA goes through, I’m going to morph from...
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Meta Avangelism : Why P2P is essential to artists
According to industry sources: Only 3% of artists signed to a major label pre-napster made over $600 a year. Only 3% of artists signed to a major label made over $600 a year. Dwell on that for a bit....
View ArticleOpenVizsla – Open Source Hardware
USB Protocol Analyzer. Which is pretty cool, because if there’s one thing I hate with a fiery bloody passion, it’s anything proprietary. I need to control my video camera from a little laptop – so I...
View ArticleMental Drilly Thing
From this, which on my computer is about 2 inches wide and 40 ft high. If you add that to this, and a load of these and put the whole lot in a blender, for about 20 years… where does that leave us?...
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Microbe-Bricks
from Get Sand Pour in Bacteria Wait for a bit = Bricks!!! Tiny bugs cause calcite-precipitation in the sand – which sets, obviating the need for firing. What could possibly go wrong? Apart from the...
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Intellectual Property : The Innovation Killer
One of my themes here (or at least tags) is “Are We There Yet” Technology – ie: technology that we’re always hearing news about, but which never seems to fucking arrive. You know what I’m talking...
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Key Concept: Optimizing For Scarcity
So the other day, someone (a reporter) asked: “why is it that wifi coverage in disaster-zones, war-zones, slums, refugee camps is better than what I can get in my classy hotel?” To which I replied...
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Microsoft’s Accidental Abolish-IP Advert
And so it came to pass… Microsoft put together a piece of hardware that was almost instantly hacked into lots of different things. They thought they were selling a game-controller, but actually they...
View ArticleThe End of Aptera: The difference between Open and Closed source
I always said that these should be open-source, materials locally-sourced, with de-coupled sub-systems… … but it came to this. They were destroyed by business optimised for scarcity. Deliberately....
View ArticleProcess Is King
From Mechanical Paper Model… and to be fair, this is a lifetime’s work (or at least a decade or so) compressed into about 4 minutes… and it is pretty amazing. And/But… (a trick of the light) the...
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The Curse of DRM
(DRM Chair. After 8 sits, it breaks) Ok… so a couple of weeks in, I have a perfectly working laser-cutter. The controller of which (only) runs a piece of software called LaserCutter 5.3, which is one...
View ArticleThe War on Internet Freedom : Various TV Bits
So the information wars (that have been waging for at least the last 500 years) have moved up a gear recently… with recent events being Edward Snowden trapped in Ballardian Limbo in a Russian airport...
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Lego-Based Copy-Monopoly Liberation
It turns kindle pages. It’s like water finding cracks in a dam – information will be free, whether the copy-monopolists like it or not… and really the copy-monopolists just need to get out of the way....
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